I must start off by saying that I LOVE crappy disaster movies, especially stupid ones from the 70s. However, even for a crappy 70s disaster movie, this was a REALLY badly thought-out movie. I am still unclear why this plane was forced to make an emergency landing first in Paris, then in London, but somehow still managed to make it to Africa without just ending up in the ocean. I also highly question how it was more reasonable and "responsible to our fellow men" to literally crash the plane in the middle of nowhere in Africa, rather than to land it safely at the airport in London. London already had quarantine measures in place to contain the deadly disease on board and has the advantages of a major city, such as real hospitals and lots of qualified doctors, including, I'm sure, many epidemiologists familiar with highly deadly flu viruses. I understand that the country in Africa had already been exposed to the disease and London had not, but it is MUCH easier to contain and quarantine people when you land them safely in a controlled environment like an airport in a major city than when they crash in a random desert. And just because people in said African country had been exposed to the disease, doesn't mean that ALL the people in the country had been exposed. How "responsible to our fellow men" would it have been if they'd crashed their plane near a little out-of-the-way village which hadn't been exposed and they ended up killing all of the villagers?
The addition of John de Lancie as the requisite asshole who cares only for himself was nice, and it was really fun to see Mike Brady playing a rather jerky guy too, but even they couldn't make up for the stupid in this movie. I gave the movie 2 stars because, as I said, I enjoy stupid 70s disaster movies, but this one was a bit too stupid even for my tastes.
The addition of John de Lancie as the requisite asshole who cares only for himself was nice, and it was really fun to see Mike Brady playing a rather jerky guy too, but even they couldn't make up for the stupid in this movie. I gave the movie 2 stars because, as I said, I enjoy stupid 70s disaster movies, but this one was a bit too stupid even for my tastes.